Technology has influenced not only our everyday lives, but our education
systems and the opportunities for teacher development. The introduction of
information and communications technology has presented new training
platforms to respond to the needs of the workforce. While traditional
institutions have greatly impacted teachers, there are now other viable
outlets through which many of the required 21st century skills, such as
professionalism, can be satisfied. Our project OFLEBO is one such example,
an online training tool targeting the teaching of oral skills for in-service
teachers of the French language in Botswana. This area was chosen because of
the teachers’ admission on finding teaching oral skills a challenging task.
This paper therefore aims to study the professionalisation of teachers
through the OFLEBO project. Professionalisation as a process is continuous,
and practice is its focus, therefore the aim is to inspire the evolution of
classroom practices concerning the teaching of oral skills.